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Energy vs DNA<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Hmm, energy. Is it a good idea I be drawn back into the subject? We used to do so much on the topic, Nicole Foss and I, in the first years of The Automatic Earth, and before that at the brilliant Oil Drum, where we had all those equally brilliant oil professionals to guide us on. So why revisit it? Well, for one thing, because a friend asked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And for another because things -may have \u2013 changed over the past 15 years or so. Not that I think the peak oil idea, which is that we reached the peak in 2005 or so, changed. Yeah, unconventional oil, shale, fracking etc., came about, but that has nothing to do with peak oil. Just look at the EROEI (energy return) you get from shale. You go from 100:1 to, if you\u2019re lucky, 5:1. You can\u2019t build a complex society on that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s not an accident that shale oil firms are going broke all over; even ultra low interest rates can\u2019t save them. But all that still doesn\u2019t come close to scratching the surface of our energy -or oil, for that matter.- conundrum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve never understood what the idea behind the Extinction Rebellion is. Or, you know, that they know what they\u2019re talking about. Do they know the physics?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The general idea, yeah, but not how they aim to reach their goals. Far as I can tell, it\u2019s about less CO2 -and methane, supposedly- emissions, but I don\u2019t get how they want to achieve that. I\u2019ve read some but not all of their theories, and it\u2019s not obvious. It feels like they want less of various things, only to replace them with something else. Like they think once oil is gone, you can put wind and solar in its staid, and off we go. Tell me how wrong I am. Please do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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